Ventilating shade hanger



- 1,483,117 2. E. RUSSELL VENTILATING SHADE HANGER Feb. 12 1924.

Filed April 28. 1923' Patented Feb. 12, 1924.

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ZACHARY E BIUSSELL, OF SAUK RAPIDS, MINNESOTA, ASSIGNOB' TO CLYDE W. WAR- BEN, OF SAUK RAPIDS, MINNESOTA.

VENTILATING SHADE HANGER].

Application filed April 28, 1923. Serial No. 635,267.

To all whom'it may concern:

Be'it' known that I, ZACHARY E. RUSSELL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Sauk Rapids, in the county of Benton and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ventilating Shade Hangers; and I do herebydeclare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will en? able others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to a hanger for a curtain or shadeand is particularly adapted for a ventilating hanger for a porch shade or curtain. Such porch shades or curtains are commonly used and are usually suspend ed from the upper edge of a porch or veranda. When the shade is in use or the sun is shining upon the same it is desirable to have the shade hooked up close to the porch roof or ledge. Whenthe sun is located so that it will not shine over the top of the curtain, it frequently isdesired to lower the top of the curtain to afford a ventilating space over the top thereof.

It is an object of this invention, there fore, to provide a very simple and convenient hanger, by means of which the curtain can be held in the two positions above indicated.

It is a further object of the invention to provide such a hanger comprising a rod or wire having eyelets or loops at its ends, one of which loops is of special formation so that when holding the shade in its upper position the hanger will not be loose so as to rattle and strike against the porch or ourtain.

It is more specifically an object of the invention to provide such a hanger as above described, the loop thereof which is of special formation having a lateral portion with Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig. 1 showing the shade suspended by its hanger in its lower or ventilating position;

Fig. 3 is a view in side elevation of the hanger; and

Fig. 4 is a verticalsection taken on the line 44 of Fig. 1, asindicated by the arrows, as shown on an enlarged scale.

Referring to the drawings, the roof of a porch is indicated-as 1, the rail or coping of the porch being indicated as 2, which roof and rail are supported by the posts 3. Eyelets comprising an ordinary form of screw eye 4 are secured in therail 2 so as to depend from the underside thereof and a curtain 5 is suspended from said eyelets by having hook members secured to its top portion, which members are suspended from the eyelets 4 by means of thehan'gers 7. The hangers 7 comprise a comparatively short piece of stiff wire or rod having formed at one end an eyelet 8 of substantially circular or ordinary form. The rod at its other end has a loop or eyelet 9, one side 10 of which is substantially circular in form and the other lateral portion of which has its sides 11 converging and connected by a short curved portion so that said lateral portion is somewhat pointed or formed to constitute a hump.

When the curtain is hung in its lower or ventilating position the hanger will be disposed as shown in Fig. 2. The loop 9 is always engaged through the eyelets 4 and in the position shown in Fig. 2, the hooks 6 are hooked into the eyelet 8 so that the hanger 7 is in vertical position. When it is desired to hook up the curtain 5 in its upper position, the hooks 6 are detached from the loops 8 and hooked into the loops 9. The hooks will be disposed in the circular portion 10 of said loops 9 while the eyelets 4 are extended through the pointed or humpshaped side of the loop 9. Owing to its special form of the loop 9 and the engagement of the eyelets 4 therein, the hanger 7 will take an ordinary position, as shown in Fig. 1 and will remain in this position as long as the hooks 6 are engaged in the loops 9. This horizontal position of the hanger 7 prevents the same from hanging down loosely as it would if the loops 9 were circular and rattling of the hanger and striking of the same against the curtain or porch rail 2 are prevented. The. objectionable noise of the rattling hangers is thus eliminated and the curtain and porch rail are not marred.

From the above description it will be seen that applicant has invented an extremely simple, ingenious and efficient hanger for a curtain and one that is particularly adapted to be used With porch curtains. The hangers can be very inexpensively made from simple wire or rod-like material and the operation thereof is extremely simple and easy. The hangers have been successfully used in actual practice.

It will, of course, be understood, that various' changes may be made in the form, de-

tails and proportions of the parts without departing from the scope of applicants in vention, which, generally'stated, consists in a device capable of carrying out the. objects above enumerated and such asshown and described andset forth in the appendedclaims.

What is claimed is:

l. A ventilatinghanger for acurtain com prising a member having means at one end adapted detachably to be connected with a supporting means at the top of the curtain, a loop at the other end of said member having a lateral portion formed with converging sides, said loop being carried in a sup porting eyelet secured in the support for said curtain, said loop being adapted "detachably to be connected to the supporting means in the top of the curtain with the supporting eyelet disposed in said lateral portion, whereby when the curtain is supported the hanger will assume a laterally ex tended position.

2. A hanger for a shade comprising a piece of rod or Wire having an eyelet at one end adapted to engage a'supporting hook at the top of said shade and having a loop at its other end adapted to be carried in an eyelet in the supporting member for said shade, said loop having a laterally extending portion with converging sides whereby the loop may simultaneously engage the supporting means at the top of the shade and the eyelet in the supporting member with said lateral portion engaging the eyelet in the supporting member so that when the curtain is supported said hanger will assume a lateral position.

A. hanger for aporch curtain or similar device comprising 'a shortpiece of rod or wire having a closed eyelet atone end adapted detachably toengage a hook secured to the top of the curtain and having a closed loop at its other end carried in aneyelet de pending from the supporting member for said curtain, said loop having a lateral por tion 'Yv'itl l converging sides and being adapted to have the supporting hook at the top of the curtain connected therein with said lateral portion engaging the eyelet depending from the supporting-member whereby when thecurtain is so supported the hanger will assume a laterally projecting position.

Intestimony whereof I afiix my signature.

ZACHA'RY E. RUSSELL. 

